By Bill Siwicki
Population health management requires fundamentally rethinking processes engrained within organizations and legacy processes from the fee-for-service world. And it requires healthcare executives to embrace new strategies, technologies and mindsets.
“The big challenge surrounding population health is understanding how to plan care needed for more complex patients while at the same time building systems of care for these patients and analyzing how that care gets paid for,” said Madeleine Biondolillo, MD, vice president of population health management at the Connecticut Hospital Association. “Hospital executives must condition themselves to enter into contracts that support the kind of care that now is necessary.”
Biondolillo added that the shift from fee-for-service to what is effectively fee-for-value will demand that hospitals figure out new ways to structure care services and provide care services.